{"id":16981,"date":"2025-10-17T08:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/?page_id=16981"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:02:26","slug":"njhs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/students\/njhs\/","title":{"rendered":"National Junior Honor Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1XP-4C5nO-D6d2_wmXEHawD8Gg5drR8lDkp561IG8GiM\/edit?usp=sharing\">NJHS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ruth Harman Academy\u2019s National Junior Honor Society<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scholarship \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Service \u00a0 <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Leadership<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Character<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Citizenship<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The purpose of Ruth Harman Academy\u2019s NJHS chapter shall be to create enthusiasm for scholarship, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote leadership, to develop character, and to encourage good citizenship.\u00a0 Membership is both an honor and an obligation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be eligible for consideration, students must:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scholarship-Grade Point Average of 3.5 or above from Quarters 1 and 2.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character-Receive high rankings on faculty evaluation sheets and two recommendations from a Ruth Harman staff member.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Service-Complete 5 hours of community service (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Vb9kBjPmCSD-XNbzY7l67Mmm12sNPTpSrndvgNKLdIU\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NJHS Service Hour Forms<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leadership-Exemplify the 7 Habits of Leader in Me<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Citizenship-No major discipline referrals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yearly dues of $20.00<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students will receive an invitation to apply for NJHS at the beginning of Quarter 3 if they have met the above requirements. Applications will be due March 25th, 2027<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Students approved for membership will receive invitations on Friday, April 16th for the Induction Ceremony.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Induction Ceremony will be held May 5th at 6pm.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Requirements for Members:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scholarship-Maintain a GPA of 3.5<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character-Students of good character uphold Ruth Harman Academy\u2019s Flyer Fundamentals.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Service-Complete 10 hours of community service ( <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Vb9kBjPmCSD-XNbzY7l67Mmm12sNPTpSrndvgNKLdIU\/edit?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NJHS Service Hour Form<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leadership-Exemplify the 7 Habits of Leader in Me<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Citizenship-No major discipline referrals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Must attend monthly meetings<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2026-2027 Meeting Dates: (all meetings will be held from <\/span><b>3:30-4:00<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> pm in room 203, music room)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">October 8th<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 12th<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">December 10th<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">January 7th<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">February 4th<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">March 11th<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April 22nd\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April 29th (TBD)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 20th<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>NJHS Advisors:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Angela Barone\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:abarone@kusd.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">abarone@kusd.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lora McNeely<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:lmcneely@kusd.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lmcneely@kusd.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJHS Ruth Harman Academy\u2019s National Junior Honor Society &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Scholarship \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Service \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Leadership \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Character \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Citizenship [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":7988,"featured_media":0,"parent":14993,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16981","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19218,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16981\/revisions\/19218"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/rha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}